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A 20 per cent fall in the UK stockmarket since the beginning of the year has pushed UK companies&#39 pensions funding an estimated £70bn into the red.Research from actuarial consultant Watson Wyatt shows the companies in the FTSE 100 have a £35bn deficit in their pension funding under new accountancy standard FRS17, with all UK […]

In the past six weeks, the mortgage industry has witnessed the most remarkable about-turn by the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Initially, it recommended that interest rates should be increased to control the continuing growth of house prices, completely ignoring the impact such a move could have on arrears. Then, like Paul on the road to […]

Archimedes came up with his big idea while getting into the bath, Isaac Newton&#39s brainwave struck him under an apple tree and the blueprint for Abbey National&#39s Sipp administration service subsidiary James Hay was drawn up under a table.The Diary understands that back in 1995, James Hay managing director Jan Regnart worked out the company&#39s […]

Consumers could be wasting £106m a year on life insurance, claims Charcol.The IFA says individuals miss out on savings of about £900 each over the 25-year lifetime of the average policy because they go direct to providers instead of using a broker to shop around.Charcol has compared the costs quoted by the top lenders for […]

By Kim Jarvis, technical manager with Canada Life’s ican Technical Services Team In this article we look at the main exemptions and reliefs that are available on death. Within the article, spouse also means civil partner. Nil-rate band Under current rules, any part of the estate that falls within the available nil-rate band (NRB), […]

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A group of 500 people have launched legal action against Ingenious Media saying they were misled about film investments that were later deemed to be tax avoidance by the government. According to Bloomberg, which cites court documents, employees from companies including Goldman Sachs, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC are part of the action. British composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber is […]

Embark Services returned to profit in 2017 as it reported an increase in self-invested personal pension clients. Embark Services is a subsidiary of Embark Group that trades under the Hornbuckle and Embark brands. The business reported pre-tax profit for the year ending 31 December 2017 of £136,000 compared with a loss in 2016 of £2.4m. […]

Architas UK has seen inflows drop by just over 70 per cent in the first half of the year. The Axa-owned asset manager reported £152m net inflows for the first six months of 2018, compared with £546m in the first half of 2017. Globally, Architas’s net inflows dropped to €797m (£710.6m) in the first half […]

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